Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-08-18
The Text of the Glenn Bill.

Az there may be desire 10 know precisely
what the terms Of he Glenn bill are, we print
below the text OF the bill:
"a bill TO be entitled. An Act to Regulate the
Manner of Conducting Educational Institutions in
this state and to T. otect the rights of Cooret and
hite People and to Provide Penalties for the NlO-
lation OF the Provisions of this AcE, ard for other
purposes
Sec l. BE it enacted that from and after the pas
sage of this act. school. college or educational
institution In this State conducted for the education
and training of coored people, shall matricuate or
receive AZ pupil any Whit person; nor shall any
school, college, or educatiO al Institution, conducted
for the training OF the whites, receive or matrculate
any colored person as pupil, nor shall any school,
college, or educational institution receive or inatrlc
ulaie both white aud cClored persons.
Sec. ,. Be it further enacted that any teacher or
manager controller of either OF such Institutions
violating the provisions of this act sha be punished
AS prescribed IN st elton 1910 of the Code. If such
institution be char cred one, then not only the
teachers thereof but the President, Secretary and
members OF the Board of Trustees or other persons
filing corTesp ondng offices who shall knowingly
permit the same tn be violated shall be subject to
indictment and punished us aforesaid
sec. ;. Be it enacted that all laws aud parts OF
laws in conflict with this act be and the same are
hereby repealed"
Section 1910 of the Code, referred to in
section of the bill, reads thus:
Accessories after the fact, except where 1t is
otherwise ordered in this Code, shall be punished by
fine not to exceed $1,000, imprisonment not to eX-
coed six months, to work IN a chain-gang ON the
public works not to exceed twelve months; aud any
ON more of these punishme0ts may be ordered
In the discretion of the Judge"
1t will be observed that the bill IS so broad
~ drawn that if white and colored children
were admitted even to the same SUNDAY
school, every teacher in the school would be
iiable TO the chain-gang penalty. Suppose a
Sunday school. for example, connected with
the work of the American Missionary Assoc
citation, and conducted primarily 'for the
education and training of the colored PEG
pie" and suppose that such 4 school should
"r, ceive as pupil single white child; the
case would come under the proposed law.
There is not the slightest ground for the pre-
tence that this bill is ne cessary IN order 70
provide separate schools for the races. That
is provided for already in the Constitution
and the laws of Georgia, and is secured in
the entire system of public schools. 1t is
carried even to such an absurd eX-
tent that at the Teachers Institutes,
held in connection with the Peabody Trust,
the colored teachers are not permitted
TO occupy the same hall with the white teach
ers The entire programme is repeated for
their benefit speaker who gives an address
u the white teachers speeding immediately
after to the hall where the cOlored teachers
are waiting, to repeat the address there. An
amusing feature of TINS system is that while
white teachers, who happen to be late for
their own exercises, do not hesitate to sit with
the colored teachers, in order not to miss the
address, and no harm was ever known TO
come of it, the social fabric OF the 5 ate
would be shakento its foundations if a single
colored teacher were to stray into the hall oc-
cupied by the white teachers. At the last
Teachers Institute in Atlanta, a few days
ago, the Superintendent made the unfortunate
mistake OF forgetting all about the colored con-
tingent, and emitting to have the programme
repeated for them. After they had waited "A
while and perceived that they had been over
looked, they dispersed and would not be re-
assembled. The biunder was an unfortunate
one to make just at this time.
Had the legislature undertaken to punish
in the chain gang any one VINO violated The
State laws regarding separate public schools
tor the two races, the thing would have been
barborous enough. But the Glenn bill goes
further than this, and imposes its penalties
upon professors in atlanta University, pri-
vate institution, if they teach their own
children in the same classes with colored
pupils. Boston Journal,